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COM(2006) 364final Brussels, 28.06.2006 (411 Kb PDF)

Amended proposal for a DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL concerning the 7th framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007-2013) (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 250 (2) of the EC Treaty)

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The CORDIS FP7 website will provide details of the work programmes, calls for proposals, procedures for applying and background doccumentation and application forms covering FP7.

At the end of 2006 the CORDIS site included details of the firsts calls for proposals (use the link above to get call details relevant to renewable bioproducts) as well as the following information:

Eligebility

Any company, university, research centre, organisation or individual, legally established in any country, may participate in a collaborative project (known as an indirect action) provided that the minimum conditions laid down in the Rules for Participation, have been met, including any additional conditions laid down by specific programmes or individual work programmes. This includes

• MEMBER STATES - The EU
• ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES - with science and technology cooperation agreements that involved contributing to the framework programme budget;
• CANDIDATE COUNTRIES - currently recognised as candidates for future accession;
• THIRD COUNTRIES - the participation of organisations or individuals established in countries that are not Member States, candidates or associated and should be justified in terms of the enhanced contribution to the objectives of FP7.

Consortia

In most cases EU research funding through FP7 is to be sought by building a consortium in order to submit a project proposal in response to a call. The eligibility of these consortia also varies according to different conditions related to the type of action of instrument.

Calls for Proposals

The Commission shall issue calls for project proposals (or for indirect actions) in accordance with the requirements laid down in the relevant specific programmes and work programmes. The first of these is expected at the beginning of 2007.

Evaluation

In order to reduce unnecessary workload and simplify proposals, FP7 will introduce two-stage submission and evaluation procedures. Where a call for proposals specifies a two-stage submission procedure, only those proposals that pass the evaluation criteria for the first stage shall be requested to submit a complete proposal in the second stage. Where a call for proposals specifies a two-step evaluation procedure, only those proposals that pass the first step, based on the evaluation of a limited set of criteria, shall go forward for further evaluation.

Funding schemes

Across all themes, support to trans-national cooperation will be implemented through:

• Collaborative research; Collaborative projects, Networks of Excellence,
• Co-ordination/support actions, actions to promote and develop human resources and mobility
• Joint Technology Initiatives; mainly resulting from the work of European Technology Platforms
• Co-ordination of research programmes; ERA-NET scheme and Treaty Article 169

Grants

Three forms of grants are proposed for the Community financial contribution:

• reimbursement of eligible costs,
• lump sums, and
• flat-rate financing (this can be based on scale of unit costs but also includes flat rates for indirect costs).

Budget

The amended FP7 proposals from the European Commission, following the budget agreement between the European Council and European Parliament amount to a total of EUR 50,521 million, partitioned among the specific programmes as follows:

• Cooperation EUR 32,292 million
• Ideas EUR 7,460 million
• People EUR 4,727 million